Paul Moseley/MCTCowboys OT Flozell Adams is restrained by an official following his personal foul on Justin Tuck at the end of the first half of Sunday's game.

Tom Coughlin didn't have to send the league tape of Sunday's most heated exchange at the Meadowlands -- the personal foul called on Cowboys left tackle Flozell Adams, which sparked a halftime skirmish between teams. When the Giants coach spoke with NFL Vice President of Officiating Mike Pereira Monday morning, Pereira had already reviewed it.

"He had already had the meeting with his staff, and they were already in the process of discussing that particular issue," Coughlin said on a conference call with reporters Monday.

Adams' offense came at the end of the first half of the Giants' 31-24 win over Dallas. On the final play, the Cowboys missed a 57-yard field goal and Giants returner Domenik Hixon stepped out of bounds upon fielding the miss, after which Adams pushed defensive end Justin Tuck from behind and was flagged for an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty.

But according to the NFL rulebook, when the offensive team commits a personal foul after the end of a down as the half ends, the period is not extended -- and as a result, the penalty is automatically declined, as happened Sunday.

Adams, of course, is the same player who tripped Tuck in Week 2 and saddled him with a lingering shoulder injury. Adams was fined $12,500 after that game, for the Tuck incident and an attempted trip of Osi Umenyiora.

Sunday's personal foul is expected to draw at least a fine -- and, perhaps, a suspension. Asked if he thinks Adams should be suspended, Coughlin deferred judgment, though he did question the league rule that required the foul to be automatically declined.

"That's not for me to decide," Coughlin said, when asked about a suspension. "I think there's no place in our game for the act that he took and to not have some kind of an immediate officiating response, there's something that needs to be addressed there. Not that the officials were wrong, that's just the way the rule is."

This week, the league can only determine what Adams' penalty should be, but Coughlin hopes the rule can be addressed in the offseason. The way the rulebook reads now, it essentially allows for a free foul in such a situation. That could be changed by having the penalty assessed on the opening kickoff of the second half.

Coughlin said his understanding is that Pereira will have that rule be reviewed at the next meeting of the league's Competition Committee -- of which Giants CEO and president John Mara is a member.

"That's the issue there," Coughlin said of Adams' act having no repercussions in the game. "There was no eviction, there was no penalty assessment, nothing."

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The knee injury that forced right guard Chris Snee to leave Sunday's game was a hyperflexion, Coughlin said. He added that Snee was "very sore" Monday and is "day-to-day." According to someone informed of Snee's injury status, who requested anonymity because they are not authorized to speak for the team, the MRI revealed no significant damage and Snee should be able to play this week against the Eagles.

K Lawrence Tynes just "banged his elbow" during the Dallas game, Coughlin said. The coach didn't have any other injuries from the game to report.

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Sunday's game drew the largest television audience of any NFL game this season, earning an overnight rating of 18.9. That was FOX's best mark for a national game since 2006, when the Week 13 meeting between the Giants and Cowboys received a 19.1 rating.